Dasylepis

Trees with glabrous vegetative parts; branches slender, dark brown, striate. Leaves entire or serrulate, often somewhat undulate, petiolate with caducous stipules. Flowers bisexual or male by abortion, in lax racemes or crowded and +/- spicate. Sepals 4 or 5, almost free, outer ones scarcely smaller, usually orbicular. Petals 4-7, imbricate like inner sepals but larger, with thick hairy scales adnate at base within. Stamens indefinite, free; anthers linear to narrowly lanceolate, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary free, glabrous or hairy, 1-locular with 2-4 multi-ovulate placentas; style short or long, simple or divided in upper half into 2-4 branches; stigmas 2-4, short. Fruit a globose capsule with hard leathery pericarp; style persistent, splitting into 2-4 longitudinal sections. Seeds few.